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Thursday, August 26, 2010

"Enraptured" by Randy Warren

EnrapturedBy Randy Warren

It seems for most my life,we’ve been waiting for the day.The day everything changes,and all the bad things go away.

We had Harmonic Convergence.Millennium came and went.We watched for love’s emergence,but those dates, made not a dent.

And now with 2012 a-looming,all of us are now assumingthat we soon will go a-zoomingto our final fate.

But I for one am truly hopingthat we all can stop our mopingand begin our fruitful gropingfor another date:

The Rapture.

For those of you who aren’t aware,the Rapture is that last day wherethe dead will rise up from their gravesand all good Christians will be saved!

Their bodies will evaporate,their mortals souls will elevate.The trumpets sound,and all around ... there’ll be no Christians to be found.

And what becomes of all the rest?Those poor souls who just “did their best”,and spent their Sundays sleeping in,and actually enjoyed their sin?

Well, first we’ll form the cleaning crewscollecting jewelry, clothes and shoes,and other things, too much to mention,the Christians dropped in their ascension.

And then there’ll be a global pause,a massive dropping of the jaws,as all us sinners comprehendthat what for some has been the endfor us is only the beginningof a Golden Age of Sinning!

A cheer will sound around the Earth,to herald humankind’s rebirth!

We’ll walk buck-naked down the street!Have intercourse with those we meet!We’ll do hard drugs in public spaces,sloppy grins upon our faces!

We’ll never go to work again!If China wants to win, it can!Economy, esch-monomy,we’ll now have our autonomy!

A new world springs up overnightwhere we’ll just have no need to fight.We’ll finally have our world peaceonce everybody gets a piece!

A fun and happy global nationwith no need for masturbation.Though that action will continue,but for show, in public venues!

Folks will feel good all the time!They’ll give up on the social climb.With no one left to judge our actions,life will be pure satisfaction!

Money will just be green paper.Credit cards become pan scrapers.

Ecstasy will be the norm,As we expand to our true form!

... and yes, one day, far down the linethere will from heaven come a chimeas Christ himself descends upon usto lay his massive trip upon us.

Hopefully we’ll make him seethat all throughout eternityall of God’s creatures, great and smalljust want to smile, and have a ball!

And even though we only prayedon accidents while getting laid,or trying to help our sports team win,perhaps He’ll see that all our sinwas just us trying to be God too,and act like God appeared to do

by being all things, dark and light.Keeping the peace...helping the fight.Robbing one man to pay another.Hating Mom...and loving Mother.

We’ll ask Christ, can we take the blame,when his own Dad made up the game?And set up rules in contradictionto our human predilections?

How could we expect to winwhen God made us to lust for sin?

Perhaps then Christ will see our sideand come to Earth where He’ll resideand live amongst us as an equaland help us write the bible’s sequel!

“The Bible Two – The Fun Begins!!!”Where it’s all good, and no one sins,

and everything is all okay,and everybody gets their way,and every day is Saturday.and everybody, straight or gay

just laughs and sings and plays all day,and never oncebothers to pray.

Because it’s all just really good,and everyone feels like they shouldand Paradise is here and nowand no one ever wonders how.

So yes, I’m waiting for the daywhen Rapture takes them all away.Until then, I’ll just watch the skyand listen for the trumpet’s cry

And hope that when that day does dawn,and we can finally get it on,that one commandment we employ:“Thou shalt always, be in Joy”

According to his bio, Randy Warren is an ascended master of the material illusion. He has come to Earth to assist in smoothing the transition into the new age. While here, he enjoys many forms of expression, including poetry. Feel free to contact him and offer him money for his myriad talents.

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Fox the Poet

Christopher Fox Grahamis a Montana-born boy raised in Arizona to be a poet, artist, and singer with unending wanderlust. He's fascinated with art and other shiny things, a good story will keep him captivated and silent as he soaks you in.

In truth, he is good at only three things: using language, kissing, and driving.

He has performed for MTV and on The Travel Channel's "Your Travel Guide" episode of Sedona. Aside from winning more than 100 poetry slams, he's published four books of poetry, most recently The Opposite of Camouflage, and won the 2012 Dylan Thomas Award for Excellence in the Written and Spoken Word.

A slam poet since 2001, he currently hosts the bimonthly Sedona Poetry Slam in West Sedona.

For nearly four years, he was the senior Copy Editor of the Sedona Red Rock News, and an arts reporter and a columnist. He wrote a weekly column "Sedona Underground," about the city's art scene. After leaving in May 2008, he was asked to return as Assistant Managing Editor in October 2009. He was promoted to News Editor in April 2012 and in August 2012 was promoted to Managing Editor, overseeing the Sedona Red Rock News,The Camp Verde Journal, Cottonwood Journal Extra, The Scene and The Village View.

He has won numerous personal and editorial newsroom awards from the Arizona Newspapers Association, including three awards for Best Headline.

He was the managing editor of Kudos, a weekly arts and entertainment publication of the Verde Independent. He was also managing editor of The Villager, a weekly news publication in the Village of Oak Creek.

He is one the six coordinators of GumptionFest a kickass, annual, one-day grassroots arts festival held in Sedona, this year in September. More than 100 artists and bands exhibit their work for free to more than 1,200 people.

In 2005, he founded the Sedona Poetry Open Mic, which he hosted biweekly at Java Love Cafe on second and fourth Tuesdays until 2012. A former venue included Random Acts of Coffee, in Sedona, which closed in June 2005. The venue named a drink after him which one can order an various coffeehouses in Sedona. The "Topher": A large soy chai with two (or three) shots of espresso. Serve iced or hot. He was member of the city of Sedona Child and Youth Commission for two years and chairman for another two years before the commission was dissolved in 2008.

He has been unofficially named "The Voice of the Underground," in Sedona for his column "Sedona Underground" that appeared every Friday in The Scene. for more than three years, featuring more than 150 artists.

He won the 2004 NORAZ Poets Grand Slam, the 2005 Arizona All-Star Poetry Slam, and was a member of the 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2012 and 2013 Flagstaff National Poetry Slam Teams. He was also a National Poetry Slam bout manager in 2003, venue manager in 2011, and Sedona Slammaster in 2012, 2013 and 2014, sponsoring the city's first three Sedona National Poetry Slam Teams.

He believes that all slam poets are Jedis.

He has been thrown out of six movie theaters, 18 bars, a Las Vegas nightclub with his girlfriend, a public pool, two malls, four golf courses, one bowling alley, five dorms, one airport, one pet store, a now-defunct nonprofit poetry organization ... and Canada. Seriously.